Dayton Daily News: Mug shot of writer from another paper with a story?

[SFIND]

I pick up a copy of the Dayton Daily News every now and then, as it is the "big" paper in my region. Today, I saw something puzzling in the sports section which I have never seen before in a paper. They had an column in from Paul Daugherty of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and with it, they used a mug shot of Daugherty.

It's nothing new in recent years for them to use Enquirer/Dispatch/Plain Dealer stories from the wire or wherever (and they always list the paper in the byline). I have just never heard of or seen before a paper using a mug shot of a writer from another paper.

Is this unusual, or have I just been living under a rock?

 

[Justin Biebler]

I think the larger papers in Ohio have some kind of a content sharing agreement, kind of an F-You to AP in the state. So that really doesn't surprise me much.

 

[Versatile]

It's not unusual within the same chain, but DDN is a Cox paper and the Enquirer is a Gannett paper. I'd doubt it's unprecedented, but it's certainly not common.

Then again, some papers run mugs for Jim Litke, Tim Dahlberg and Nancy Armour.

 

[Raiders]

Miami did it during the NBA Finals when it ran columnists from the Fort Worth paper.

 

[Versatile]

Miami did it during the NBA Finals when it ran columnists from the Fort Worth paper.

Both are McClatchy Company papers.

 

[Walter Burns]

The eight largest papers in Ohio — the Plain Dealer, the Enquirer, the Columbus Dispatch, the Dayton Daily News, the Akron Beacon Journal, the (Youngstown) Vindicator, the Blade and the Canton Repository — have formed the Ohio News Organization. They share content and do bigger things together (projects, polls, etc.)

 

[SFIND]

The eight largest papers in Ohio — the Plain Dealer, the Enquirer, the Columbus the Dayton Daily News, the Akron Beacon Journal, the (Youngstown) Vindicator, the Blade and the Canton Repository — have formed the Ohio News Organization. They share content and do bigger things together (projects, polls, etc.)

I still just thought it was a bit odd that they used a mug shot of another's papers columnist, even with their content sharing.